The Alpha and the Omega Pt. III - Delta (c)
“Okay, what are we dealing with now? Anybody?” F-T Sonic asked as he lay on his back, his head turned to look at the creature.
“It looks like Mewtwo, but not quite. Perhaps it’s what Mewtwo would look like if darkness had corrupted him and made him achieve a different Primal state,” Lucario said as he rose up onto one knee. Any questions anyone might’ve had for him were to remain unasked due to the Mewtwo curling its body inward again, a purple Aura surrounding it and a rainbow-colored shape appearing and shining brightly in front of it. After several moments, the light and Aura faded away to reveal that the dark Mewtwo’s appearance was different, now looking more like a close-range fighter and having blue eyes. “Make that a dark Mega Mewtwo… X,” Lucario grumbled as he stood up and ran towards the opponent, Pikachu dashing over and getting behind him to provide support.
The dark Mewtwo glared at Lucario as he got closer, raising its fists to block his first punch before retaliating with one of its own. Lucario managed to sidestep it and they both began to punch and kick at each other, the Dark Mewtwo leaping back when Lucario spun around and tried to strike it with his tail. Upon landing, it brought its hands close together and began readying an Aura Sphere that was orange in color. Lucario created an Aura Sphere of his own at this and threw it moments after the Dark Mewtwo threw its sphere. The two attacks met in midair and pressed against each other for a moment, the Mewtwo’s sphere looking like it was about to overpower Lucario’s when they both exploded, raising a cloud of dust.
Lucario closed his eyes and tried using Detect to catch the dark Mewtwo’s next move as it burst through the dust cloud. It grabbed at him with its three-fingered hands and Lucario leapt back to get out of the way. He was able to duck when the Mewtwo swung its left fist at him, but it ended up colliding with Pikachu as he leapt to try to help Lucario. The jackal’s eyes shot open as the mouse went sprawling across the ground, “Pikachu!” His distraction cost him as the Mewtwo punched him in the face several times before swinging its tail around and sweeping him off the ground.
By this time, everyone else had recovered from being uprooted and was ready to join in. F-T Sonic was the first to move, dashing towards the dark Mewtwo and distracting its attention away from Lucario. Once he was close enough, he jumped up and launched into a Homing Attack, managing to hit the dark Mewtwo before it could put up a guard. The attack pushed it back and it sidestepped to move away from Sonic, but the blue hedgehog was still in the air, so he locked onto the dark Mewtwo’s new position and launched into another Homing Attack. This repeated several times, the dark Mewtwo stepping back and to the side to get away only to get hit by another Homing Attack. O-T Sonic watched how his future self quickly attacked the way he did in amazement, resolving to not only learn the technique but to master it.
It didn’t take long for the dark Mewtwo to grow annoyed at Sonic’s repeated attacks. After taking another hit, instead of stepping back, it steeled itself and delivered an uppercut to Sonic’s face with its right fist, interrupting him and sending him flying back end over end, though he did manage to land on his feet in a crouched position. Almost immediately after he slid to a stop, Rainbow shot over his head with Tails flying close behind her. The dark Mewtwo noticed them coming and stepped around Rainbow, striking her in the back of the head with his right for good measure, and then tried to grab Tails with its left hand. Fortunately, Tails had better control over his speed and was able to stop himself and reverse direction to avoid the hand, only to be grabbed by the dark Mewtwo’s Psychic powers. It held the fox in midair, allowing him very little movement.
Before it could do anything more, the dark Mewtwo let out a grunt as a pink shot of magic struck its chest from above, breaking its concentration and causing it to release Tails. It looked up and saw Cadance hovering up in the air at the edge of the field, her horn glowing brightly. She fired several more shots at it, but it held up its right hand and created a small blue barrier in front of it that the shots were unable to breach. The dark Mewtwo felt several shots hit its side a second later, however, and looked to see that they had come from Shining and Twilight. It didn’t take long for everyone else to join in, both Sonics, Rainbow, and Riolu using their speed to perform quick attacks before moving away while Shining, Twilight, Cadance, Pikachu, Lucario, and Link attacked from far away while it was distracted, the others moving in to either attack or draw its attention when they had a chance.
Their strategy was not effective for long, however, as the dark Mewtwo soon realized how they were trying to overwhelm it. After taking a strong kick to the side from Applejack, it spun around and whacked her away with its tail. It then heard Tails and Rainbow flying at it and used its Psychic to stop the latter with its left hand while it punched the former away. It then released Rainbow and let her crash into the ground while it leapt straight up, the shots from Twilight, Cadance, and Shining missing it as it ascended. It soon came to a stop in midair and held its arms out to its side, projecting its Psychic powers outward.
Everyone soon noticed walls of light forming a box around the field as a result of the dark Mewtwo using Reflect. It then began to bring its hands together in front of it, causing the walls to move inward while passing through the crystal formations unhindered. The same couldn’t be said for the group, though; instead of passing through them, the walls began roughly pushing them towards the middle of the arena as the dark Mewtwo came down. Once it was a short distance above the ground and in the optimal position, it stopped moving the walls and curled its body inward. Before anyone could recover from being pushed, it uncurled its body as it unleashed a powerful burst of Psychic energy that shattered the Reflect walls and swept everyone off of the ground, all of them being sent flying and many of them crashing into the crystal formations outside of the central arena.
Pikachu, Lucario, Riolu, and O-T Sonic were the only ones who weren’t thrown out of the arena by the dark Mewtwo’s blast, though they did end up at the edges of it. Lucario was the first to recover and he stood up and shot towards the Mewtwo, bringing his paws close together as he ran and creating a staff of Aura between them for a Bone Rush attack. As he got closer, the dark Mewtwo held its left hand up and back, creating an orange blade of energy from its palm and swinging it at Lucario, who held up his staff horizontally to block it. They began swinging at each other, the dark Mewtwo alternating its blade between its hands as it tried to block and parry.
After a few minutes, it made a vertical slash at Lucario and, as the Aura Pokémon was bringing his staff down, it reached up with its right hand and grabbed the exposed part of the staff, holding it for a moment before suddenly thrusting its hand straight up, hitting Lucario on the underside of his head with both its fist and the staff. The surprise attack only stunned Lucario for a moment, but that was all the Mewtwo needed. It grabbed Lucario by the neck and lifted him off of the ground, holding him for a moment before it began slashing at him with the blade. After several seconds of this, in one quick motion, it let him go and punched him in the stomach, sending him flopping back across the ground.
Pikachu, Riolu, and O-T Sonic all had had a good view of what Lucario was put through and they watched him as he was sent back and slid to a stop before they all turned and glared at the dark Mewtwo, all of them running towards it. Pikachu reached it first due to using Agility and used his increased Speed to launch a combination of Double Team and Quick Attack, all of his copies flying towards the Mewtwo and disappearing as it swung its arms and tried to strike at the real one, but the real Pikachu managed to hit it before jumping to its left side and turning around, attempting to follow up with an Iron Tail. The dark Mewtwo was quick, however, and was able to intercept him, grabbing him and throwing him down to the side.
Riolu and O-T Sonic were just about on top of the Mewtwo at this point, both of them immediately launching their attacks. Sonic managed to land a Spin Dash on Mewtwo’s side and Riolu managed to hit it with a Force Palm, but the latter attack did not cause paralysis. Mewtwo turned and grabbed Riolu and threw him across the ground. O-T Sonic tried to use another Spin Dash, but Mewtwo heard him coming and punched him when he leapt off of the ground, causing him to break out of his spin and slide back across the ground a bit dazed. Pikachu tried to intercept the Mewtwo as it started to approach O-T Sonic, but it blocked his Thunderbolt attack and punched him away when he attempted to use another Iron Tail. O-T Sonic looked up at the Mewtwo as it stood over him and created its blade of orange energy in its right hand, raising it above its head.
Before it could swing it down, though, a loud shout rang through the air. The Mewtwo looked back up over its shoulder and saw Link coming down from above with both sword and shield drawn. The Mewtwo cancelled its attack and moved to the side as Link swung his sword down, missing Mewtwo but being far away enough to not hit O-T Sonic by accident. The Mewtwo looked at O-T Sonic and saw a blue blur shoot by and grab him, F-T Sonic getting his past self to safety. Looking around, Mewtwo saw that everyone had recovered from the earlier blast and was moving back in to continue the fight. It turned its attention back to Link as the boy ran up to it and focused on him.
Glaring down at the boy, the Mewtwo suddenly swung its tail to the left at him, but Link saw it coming and leapt to the left, rolling sideways as he landed and getting up behind Mewtwo before delivering an upward slash to its back, causing it to grunt in pain. The Mewtwo whirled around and tried to punch the boy with its right fist, only for Link to retaliate by thrusting his shield forward against the fist. The force from his thrust managed to surprise the Mewtwo and Link took advantage of its surprise to leap up and slash down at it from above. The Mewtwo’s tail wrapped around his legs as he was coming down, however, causing him to land hard on his front. Link managed to flip himself over a moment later, but the Mewtwo lifted him up with its Psychic and punched him hard in the chest, Link letting out a cry as he was sent flying back. He rolled on his side when he landed, coming to a stop on his front near the edge of the arena.
Lucario noticed that Link wasn’t trying to get up right away and feared that the Mewtwo had hurt him severely. The Aura Pokémon ran and leapt to the boy’s side, reaching into his Treasure Bag and pulling out an Oran Berry. “Here-” he tried to say but was cut off when the berry suddenly exploded in a shower of blue juice. He looked over at the Mewtwo and saw it was holding out its left hand, indicating it had used its Psychic powers to destroy the berry. It then lowered its left hand and raised its right, creating an orange Aura Sphere in front of it. “Oh no…!” Lucario muttered as he looked back at Link, seeing the boy still on the ground. He looked towards the Mewtwo when he heard Pikachu shout at him and saw the Aura Sphere coming straight at him and Link.
The dark Mewtwo’s Aura Sphere exploded when it reached Lucario and Link, a thick cloud of smoke being generated from the explosion. Assuming they were both defeated and satisfied with that, it turned to face the rest of the group, everyone having made it back to the arena and now angered at what it had done. Before anyone could move, a golden glow began to shine brightly from the cloud of smoke and Mewtwo quickly looked back over its shoulder with an eye raised in surprise. Everyone else looked as well, wondering where the light was coming from.
As the smoke began to fade, they all saw Link standing in front of Lucario, who was still kneeling down, glaring at Mewtwo with his sword and shield in his hands. Lucario looked up at Link and saw that the golden glow seemed to be coming from his left hand, some sort of symbol visible there. “You… What is…?” Lucario breathed, not sure what to make of what he was seeing. Link didn’t answer him, instead remaining focused on Mewtwo. He held his left hand up in front of himself so the back of his hand could be seen. Looking, they all saw that the symbol was of three golden triangles, one on top of the other two and the bottom right triangle was shining more brightly than the other two.
The golden light looked terrifying, but the dark Mewtwo wasn’t about to back down. It glared at Link once again as the boy put away his sword and shield, his stance hardly changing as he did. He glared back at Mewtwo for a second before his left hand went behind his back for a moment, Lucario’s eyes widening when he saw the mask in the boy’s hand when he brought it forward again. The others noticed it as well, Spike saying, “Whoa, is that the mask he had on before?!”
Pikachu, Sonic, and Cadance were just as surprised as he was when they saw the mask’s face. “I think it is, Spike!” Sonic said. He then called, “Get clear, everyone! Link’s about to go all out!”
Tails asked what many of the others were thinking, “What do you mean he’s about to go all out?”
As Link raised the mask to his face, Cadance said, “You’ll see in a moment, Tails.” Once the mask was on, a change came over Link. He hunched over as he alternated between groaning and growling. After a moment, he raised his head up and brought his arms down at his sides as he let out an anguished, inhuman roar. Everyone was shocked when they saw the mask’s face. Before it had empty eyeholes and a closed mouth; now the eyes had white scleras and small eyes that were made even more frightening by the mask’s now narrowed eyebrows. The mouth was open as well, revealing sharp fangs inside. Link’s contorted mask face remained for a few seconds before a flash of white light forced everyone to look away.
When the light faded, they could all see that Link had assumed the form he had taken when he had aided Groudon. No longer a young child, he now looked more like a human adult, wearing black trousers, gray and red gauntlets, and a silver tunic and cap, the tunic looking like it had armor around the torso. He had white hair sticking out from under his cap, his face had blue and red markings, his eyes were an empty white color, and he had a large sword with a double helix blade on his back. Despite the surprising change the boy had undergone, the dark Mewtwo refused to be intimidated. It let out a growl, but Link’s expression didn’t change. He simply grabbed the hilt of his sword with both hands and drew it, taking a few steps forward while Lucario ran for the edge of the arena.
As Sonic, Pikachu, Yoshi, Cadance, and Spike did the same as Lucario and cleared out, Link and the dark Mewtwo stared at each other for a moment. The latter was the first to move, summoning three dark projectiles and holding them up in front of itself. As it raised its hand to send them flying, however, Link made a vertical slash with his blade, a blue crescent-shaped beam of energy flying off of it. It went through the attack Mewtwo was preparing, breaking the projectiles, and through it as well. Tails and the remaining ponies saw this and quickly followed their friends’ example as Link swung three more times, each one launching a beam at the dark Mewtwo. It grunted in pain as each one hit it, but it was still far from finished.
The dark Mewtwo suddenly rushed at Link, throwing its right fist straight at his face. Link managed to dodge it while letting out a gasp and leapt back a moment later, doing several handstands and flips as the Mewtwo unleashed a flurry of fast punches at him. He managed to stay ahead of its fists and, after his last backflip, took his sword in both hands and swung it diagonally upwards. The Mewtwo managed to step back from the slash and grabbed the tip of the sword with its right hand before he could pull it back, grabbing it partway down the blade with its left hand as well. The two glared at each other as they began grunting, both trying to overpower the other. After a couple of moments, Link managed to wrestle his sword free and swung it around in a Spin Attack that hit the Mewtwo in the chest. He followed up by jumping up and thrusting the blade down into the ground, the resulting impact blowing the dark Mewtwo back.
The Mewtwo managed to stop itself in midair and right itself after a few seconds. After setting its feet on the ground, it stared at Link for a second before it held both hands out to its sides, the right hand forming an orange Aura Sphere while the left hand created a Shadow Ball. Link looked between the two spheres for a moment before a memory clicked and he lowered his sword down to his left, waiting.
Once both orbs were fully formed, the Mewtwo threw them both at Link, the Aura Sphere flying through the air faster than the Shadow Ball. Link steadied himself as they approached, swinging to the right horizontally to send the Aura Sphere back and then quickly swinging to the left to reflect the Shadow Ball. The dark Mewtwo remained calm at this and used its hands to knock them back when they reached it. The two kept this volley up for a minute until the Aura Sphere came back at the Mewtwo too fast to reflect. It was stunned for a moment when the orange orb hit, that moment costing it as the Shadow Ball came back at it and hit as well, stunning it further as the black-purple matter that made up the second sphere clung to it.
Determined to end the fight, Link put his sword on his back and brought out his bow, taking aim. A holy yellow light formed around his arrow when he readied it and continued to surround it as he let it fly. When it hit the dark Mewtwo, it began to spasm wildly as the light energy chased away the remnants of the Shadow Ball and dug into it. It let out a pained, wordless scream as it felt its power sap away, returning to its normal form and placing its left hand on the ground to hold itself up as Link ran towards it. He began slashing at it as soon as he reached it, the Mewtwo letting out pained groans as he slashed at it.
Suddenly, the dark Mewtwo shook off the effects of the Light Arrow and returned to its Mega Evolved form, surprising Link with an uppercut to the chin and knocking the mask-wearing boy onto his back. As he sat up, he noticed the Mewtwo float up into the air and hold its right hand above its head. After a moment, purple-black energy began to build up above it into a sphere that grew until it touched the palm of the Mewtwo’s hand. Link could tell it was preparing to finish it with one last attack and decided that he should answer likewise. He stood up and held his sword above his head in both hands, white light surrounding the blade and extending from the tip as he gathered energy into it. After a few moments, he let out a loud grunt as he swung the sword straight downwards, the white light going through both the Mewtwo and the sphere it was forming, the latter exploding and exposing the Mewtwo to the gathered energy.
Everyone watched the dark Mewtwo drop down, once again reverting to its normal form as it fell to its knees. Looking at Link, they saw that he too had returned to normal, the boy pulling the mask off of his face and putting it away. Despite this, he wasn’t done yet as he drew his Kokiri Sword and Hero’s Shield and ran up to the Mewtwo, slashing at it. After a moment, he jumped up and hung in midair as translucent white wings sprouted from the top of his boots. He then began dashing around the Mewtwo at high speed while dragging the tip of his sword across the ground. His blade hit the Mewtwo a few times, but he was focused on tracing a series of golden lines on the ground. When he was finished, the lines formed the shape of the three triangles on the back of Link’s hand. He came to a stop at his starting point at the base of the triangles as his wings faded and held his sword up towards the sky a moment later with a shout. In response, golden light shot up from the triangles with the dark Mewtwo caught in the middle.
As the light began to die down, the dark Mewtwo floated upward, its eyes closed and teeth gritted as black-purple mist began to come off of its body. After a moment, it began to writhe as it hung in the air, the mist floating around its body like ethereal flames as everyone watched. Suddenly, a rainbow-colored light began to shine from within it and moments later, the dark Mewtwo exploded in a burst of cloud of mist, everyone looking away as the light shone brightly, the crystal formations beginning to fade away into nothingness.
After several seconds, the light started to dim and they all heard the faint sound of something landing on stone. Looking, they all saw that the interior of the castle was back to normal, some of them having fallen down to the floor as the crystal faded away underneath them. Everyone looked at Link, Tails and most of the ponies staring at him in shock at what they had just seen him do, but his attention was directed towards the floor, at the center of where the three triangles had been. He put his sword and shield on his back and walked forward after a moment, kneeling down on one knee and picking something up off the ground, holding it in the palm of his right hand. F-T Sonic, Lucario, Pikachu, Riolu, and Cadance walked over to him to see what it was.
It appeared to be some sort of stone not much bigger than a marble. Despite the castle’s dim lighting, they could see it clearly due to its bright coloration. It was perfectly round and somehow had all the colors of the rainbow, the symbol they had all seen when the dark Mewtwo Mega Evolved visible beneath its surface. “What is it?” Cadance asked as some of the others began to move closer.
“I don’t know,” Lucario said after a moment. “It kind of reminds me of an Emera, yet it’s different.”
Riolu looked up at him, “What’s a…” He was cut off when a loud roar came from Rayquaza’s direction, catching everyone’s attention. They all looked to see her struggling to break free of her bindings once more, though she was doing so more forcefully than before. She paused after a moment and made one strong jerk to the side, causing the binding around her neck to break away from the wall. It didn’t take long afterwards for her to break out of the rest of her bindings and her head slumped forward and her claws sat on the edge of the hole as she rested. As she breathed in and out, everyone could see that her eyes were back to their normal yellow color.
After a few moments, a new portal opened up near Rayquaza. She turned to look at it for a moment before her head darted towards it, the rest of her snake-like body following her into it. “Wait, Rayquaza!” Lucario called, but the last of her was already disappearing into the opening. More portals began to open up around the room, depositing random objects from across time and space. A Motobug, a large red carpet with a confused Kecleon and his wares on it, several Dry Bones that went to pieces when they hit the ground, one of the large bookshelves from the Golden Oak Library… Twilight looked horrified to see it displaced, though it faded when a familiar organ crashed against a wall and a huge, metal hammer fell straight down from the portal in the ceiling, its impact lifting everyone considerably off the ground.
Once they all landed and were all standing up without any shaking, Riolu pointed at the first portal and said, “After that… whatever you called it!” He then took off running towards it, both Lucario and Pikachu hurrying after him. The others were quick to follow, Link tucking the stone away in a pouch as he started to run. The other portals were still ejecting things, seemingly trying to stop them from following Rayquaza. Bob-Ombs, empty Koopa shells, and large objects like tables and ladders were thrown out, everyone either moving around or clambering over them as they kept moving. They all managed to reach the portal without getting hit by anything or being blown up and dove into it after the Pokémon, leaving Bowser’s old castle behind.
The portal emptied out into a new area, the ground beneath them feeling rugged. They could see the sky above them again, but it was colored orange, indicating the sun was setting. Looking down from the sky, they look around and quickly realized they were on a mountain, fairly high up from the looks of it. “Where are we now?” Spike asked.
“Yoshi. (Doesn’t look familiar.)” Yoshi shrugged. Neither Lucario nor Pikachu said anything, both of them scanning the skies for Rayquaza.
Sonic noticed the excited look on Link’s face as he looked around, an unusual sight to see, surprisingly. He guessed that Link knew where they were, his mouth opening as he drew in a breath. He was unable to get any words out as Pinkie suddenly pointed up towards the mountain summit and said, “Ooh! Look up there!” Everyone looked to see what had caught her attention.
Rayquaza was in the sky above the mountain, even higher than the cloud ring encircling its summit, battling what appeared to be another Rayquaza. Unlike her, the other dragon was black instead of green, but it was more of a neon black. The yellow and red markings and red eyes appeared to be neon as well. It reminded F-T Sonic of how Dark Gaia’s minions and temple guards looked. They watched the two Rayquazas battle; suddenly, their Rayquaza swooped down along the side of the mountain with the black Rayquaza in pursuit. As she twisted around and flew in front of the mountain, a bright shine lit up further up from the group before it faded.
“What was that?” Shining asked.
“Don’t know, but it seems like Rayquaza triggered it,” F-T Sonic said.
Tails held a hand to his chin, “Maybe. It could be Rayquaza, but it also could’ve been triggered by something else. Could be a reflection from the sun or something about this mountain or…” He paused as Rayquaza flew past again while slashing at the black Rayquaza with Dragon Claw. “Oh. No, it looks like you were right, Sonic,” he corrected as he saw the shine appear and fade away again.
Lucario spoke, “Perhaps it’s an Emera.”
The others looked at him, but Riolu was the first one to speak, finishing his earlier question that was now on everyone’s mind, “What’s an Emera?”
Lucario grunted, “We’ll talk about it later. Rayquaza is probably still carrying the damage from our earlier fight and whatever that wizard did to her. If there’s something up there that can help her, we should get it while she draws that other Rayquaza’s attention.”
Rainbow spread her wings and said, “I’m on it!” She shot straight up towards the summit, coming to a stop partway up and looking down, searching for where the shine had been. She noticed a faint glow coming from what appeared to be a raised platform a little ways down and flew down to it. Upon landing, she found a circle of rocks on the platform with one that looked different from the rest sitting in the middle of the circle. Hopping up onto the platform and taking a closer look, she saw that the center rock was the source of the glow she had seen. “This is what was shining earlier? How’s it… Wait, is this…?” she wondered as she held it in her hooves and began to examine it, noticing the extraterrestrial look it had.
Suddenly it began to shine brightly, lighting up with all seven colors of the rainbow, but as Rainbow looked away, something crashed into the mountain just above her, causing the ground to shake. She looked up and saw Rayquaza on her back with the black Rayquaza on top of her. The latter’s attention soon turned from Rayquaza to Rainbow Dash, glaring at her when it saw what she was holding. Rainbow stared back with wide eyes for a moment before she narrowed her eyes, spreading her wings and preparing to rush to Rayquaza’s aid. Before she could move, however, the black Rayquaza opened her mouth and began to gather purple mist into a sphere. It fired the sphere at Rainbow Dash a moment later, the cyan pegasus flapping her wings hard to go straight up to get out of the way. She managed to avoid the sphere, which broke apart when it hit the ground, but she soon found herself being sent back down the mountain courtesy of the Rayquaza’s tail to her face, the rock falling from her hooves.
The distraction gave Rayquaza a chance to force the black Rayquaza off of her and she took to the air with her opponent flying up after her. Everyone noticed the rainbow light still shining, even though the mist from the black Rayquaza’s attack was starting to obscure it, but their attention was focused on Rainbow as she was sent flying down towards them. Lucario, Applejack, and Shining braced themselves to catch her, but Yoshi stepped in front of them and extended his tongue when the pegasus was close enough, pulling her into his mouth. The force from her momentum nearly sent her down his throat, but he managed to hold her in his mouth.
F-T Sonic quickly rushed in front of Yoshi and pushed his hands into the dinosaur’s mouth, grabbing Rainbow and pulling her out. “What happened, Rainbow? What did you find up there?” he asked as she shook the saliva off of her.
“Yuck!” Rainbow groaned as she flapped her wings to try to get the remaining bits of Yoshi slobber off of them. Once they seemed to be clean, she focused on the questions. “There’s some kind of weird rock up there that’s glowing like that! It’s like a falling star!” she said.
“You mean a meteorite?” Twilight asked, intrigued.
Rainbow shrugged, “Yeah, sure, whatever. The point is that thing seemed to react like that because Rayquaza got close to it! I think Lucario might be right about it being able to help Rayquaza!”
Lucario replied, “Well, if it is a meteorite, then yes, it should. I remember hearing something about meteoroids helping Rayquaza maintain her pure form, otherwise known as the form she took on when she calmed Groudon and Kyogre long ago.”
Shining asked, “Is that so? In that case, we’d better get that rock and get it up to Rayquaza fast!”
Looking up towards where the light from the meteor had been, everyone noticed they could no longer see it and the mist from the black Rayquaza’s attack had spread out more, dark figures starting to emerge from it as it became thinner. Like earlier, the figures appeared to be dark copies, but they shared the black Rayquaza’s black neon and lit up features instead of being blackish-purple with red eyes like before.
The black Rayquaza noticed the group and, after evading a Dragon Claw from Rayquaza and slapping her away with its tail, started making several more pink spheres. It then fired them at various spots on the mountain, causing more of the mist to spread across it. One of the spheres shot straight towards the group and splitting them apart as they jumped out of its path, Both Sonics, Link, Yoshi, Lucario, Pikachu, Riolu, and Spike on one side while Tails and the ponies were on the other side. As they stared at the dissipating mist, multiple copies began to take shape and glared at the two sides, daring them to try to push through.
Lucario growled, “We don’t have time to deal with all of them!” He called, “Everyone, start heading up the mountain!”
Twilight called back, “Wait, what are we doing?! What’s the plan?!”
F-T Sonic noticed a copy of Applejack jumping out of the mist and aiming from him. He caught it in his arms and fell onto his back, rolling a few times before kicking the copy up and away from him while Link used his shield to protect himself from a Tails copy whipping its tails at him before using his shield to push it back. Lucario, meanwhile, used Force Palm to push back a Cadance copy before answering, “We need to find that meteorite! One of these things must have it! Look for it; we’ll keep in touch as best we can!” He then turned and started heading up the right side of the mountain with the others while the others started up the left side after Rainbow punched an F-T Sonic copy and Applejack bucked a Twilight copy.
Along the right side of the mountain, the Sonics’ group ran along the side of a rock formation that stretched over the path. As they got underneath it, the purple mist began to seep down from above, behind, and to their right, forcing everyone to stop. They all looked around as more copies began to materialize around them, boxing them in. Everyone gathered close together, everyone facing a different direction as the copies began to move closer. They all braced themselves for a fight.
Suddenly, Lucario sensed something coming from their right, something new. He began to turn to look, hearing F-T Sonic utter “Huh?” as he did; the taller blue hedgehog must’ve seen whatever it was. Both Lucario and F-T Sonic saw several of the copies turning around to look at something. A moment later, a large shuriken made of water blasted through the copies, beheading or otherwise cutting through the copies. “Get down!” F-T Sonic called as he realized the thing was still spinning towards the group. Everyone crouched down at his words, even Pikachu and Riolu, and the shuriken flew over their heads, breaking against the rock and spraying them with water droplets. Looking at the other two copy groups, everyone saw them get hit by several smaller Water Shurikens followed by a much larger one, both groups being taken out. Seeing that the projectiles seemed to be coming from the other side of the drop to their right, everyone looked to see who was helping them.
On the other side of the gorge was a dark blue frog-like figure hanging upside-down as it looked over at them, its webbed feet on the ledge above being the only thing keeping it from falling. It had its arms crossed over its chest as it hung there and it had a long tongue that seemed to be wrapped around its neck like a living scarf. It had some lighter patches of blue on the back of its legs and head, raised white spots on its knees and elbows, and yellow coloration on its stomach, on the webbing between its fingers and toes, and around its red eyes. After a few seconds, the frog raised itself up onto the ledge with only its feet, its arms remaining crossed as it went up. It turned slightly and looked at them over its right shoulder with its same half-lidded eyes for a moment before uncrossing its arms and bending its knees, making a powerful jump. It went out of sight for a moment, but then it landed just ahead of the group, its posture seeming more relaxed now.
“A two point landing,” F-T Sonic commented as everyone stood up.
Lucario looked intently at the frog as it began to approach the group. “A Greninja… What’s a Pokémon like you doing here?” he asked.
The Greninja stopped in front of the group and explained, “Gre, Greninja. Greninja, gre Greninja, ninja. Greninja ninja gre, Greninja.”
Spike looked up at Lucario and asked, “What did he say?”
Lucario answered, “He says he’s been following us for a while now. Says he caught sight of us while he was investigating that destroyed city and has been keeping an eye on us since from a distance since then. Now he wants to help us put an end to Kyogre and Groudon’s rampage.”
F-T Sonic looked at Greninja, the blue frog’s poker face a bit unnerving. He saw the end of the long tongue moving back and forth a little bit and notice that it actually seemed to be tied like a real scarf in the front. “That’s one long tongue you’ve got there, Greninja. Pretty cool,” he said, O-T Sonic nodding while Yoshi turned away and crossed his arms with a “Hmph!”
Spike also seemed unimpressed, shrugging as he said, “Eh. My tongue can do that too. I just can’t do it all the time.”
On the other side of the mountain, Tails’ group hadn’t run into any major roadblocks yet. There were scattered copies that tried to get the jump on them from above, but they didn’t seem to be doing much to keep the fox and the ponies from climbing up the mountain. It did make them worry about how the Sonics’ group was doing since it seemed pretty quiet on that side of the mountain.
The group soon reached a split in the path and stopped to examine both paths. If they kept going straight, the path would be a little wider, but there was a steep drop to their left that went on for a while. On the other hand, if they went up and to the right, things would probably become a little narrower, but it could also be a little safer and the tighter space could work in their favor. “Which way should we go?” Cadance asked.
“It doesn’t look like there’s anything on the path in front of us. They’re probably hiding that meteorite more in towards the mountain, so that would probably be best,” Shining said.
“So… go right, then?” Rainbow asked. At Shining’s nod, she shrugged, “You know, you could’ve just said that instead, right?” Shining looked like he wanted to say something, but a gasp from Fluttershy caught his and everyone else’s attention. Looking forward, they saw what it was: a cloud of purple mist had appeared at the top of the path they were considering and a wall of copies was moving down towards them.
“I don’t think we’re going this way!” Tails said.
“Nope. We’d better go the other way. This ain’t exactly a good place ta be,” Applejack agreed. Everyone turned and continued up the path they were on. The climb was going well until, when they were about halfway up, more copies appeared at the top of the path, forming another wall. They all came to a stop, seeing the copies beginning to approach them. Looking back down the path, they saw the other copies advancing up towards them.
“It’s a pincer attack. They caught us,” Tails realized.
Shining gritted his teeth. “Didn’t even think about them doing that,” he grunted as he looked back and forth between the two advancing copy groups.
“Now what?” Twilight asked worriedly. As if in answer, a portal opened up over the nearby chasm, five black bombs with tan boots being deposited from it in front of the group.
“Bob-Ombs!” Tails exclaimed.
“I didn’t even say it this time!” Twilight cried.
Rarity eyed the Bob-Ombs. “These things raise a lot of… unsettling questions,” she admitted.
“I hope they don’t have a short fuse,” Cadance said.
Rainbow grunted, “Hey, no problem! We’ll just have to do this the hard way! Right, Tails?” The fox didn’t reply; somewhere in the back of his mind, something about this situation and where they were seemed familiar…
Suddenly Pinkie Pie cried out, “Twitchy tailllllllll!” This snapped Tails out of his thoughts, him and nearly everyone else looking up to see what was falling this time. They didn’t see anything for a moment, but then a portal opened up in the sky that was facing in the direction of the mountain’s base. A moment later, a small red biplane with silver metal wings came through it, its flying becoming a bit erratic after a moment. Tails’ eyes widened; he recognized that plane.
Suddenly the plane turned sharply to the left and started rolling over and over as it went into a nosedive towards the mountain. The pilot seemed to be wrestling with the controls as the rolling seemed to be slowing down, though it was still heading towards the mountain. It began trying to pull up as it approached the path Tails’ group was on, but there wasn’t enough time to pull up completely. The plane did manage to level out moments before it was on top of the first group of copies causing them to scatter, some of them being hit by the plane as the tip of its right wing scraped along rock. Tails and the ponies dropped to the ground as the plane’s impact with the ground caused it to jump, all of them hearing a familiar-sounding “Whoaaa!” as it missed them. It then plowed through the second group of copies before it began to pull back up into the sky, narrowly missing scraping the left wing as the sound of explosions rose out of the chasm. It continued to ascend as it turned to the right; as it did, Tails looked up and caught a brief glimpse of the two-tailed fox in the pilot’s seat.
He wasn’t the only one who noticed as Pinkie suddenly appeared next to him and wrapped a foreleg around his shoulders, saying, “Guess what, Tails! You’re now Fun-Timey Tails because Old-Timey Tails is here~!” F-T Tails gave her an odd look at that. Her choice of names had been bothering him since she first used them; surely he and Sonic weren’t THAT much older now.
Twilight’s attention went from Pinkie to the sound of a fuse burning a moment later. Looking forward, she saw that while most of the Bob-Ombs had fallen into the chasm due to the sudden appearance of the plane, one had managed to stay on the path and now its fuse was lit. She let out a yelp and quickly stood up, grabbing it with both hooves and holding it up over her head, preparing to throw it over the ledge. As Fluttershy stood up, however, her head bumped into Twilight’s left side, causing the unicorn to spin on her hooves and lose her balance, her hooves moving forward as she tried to throw it while falling onto her back. It landed amidst the first group of copies as they were regrouping, the resulting explosion outright destroying some while others were thrown over into the chasm by it.
Looking back at where the Bob-Omb had exploded, they saw that a new portal was forming, an empty green Koopa shell and what looked like a red ray gun falling out of it. They looked back at the portal. “Did that explosion cause that portal to form?” Shining asked.
“If so, then time and space must be getting stretched really thin. We have to hurry,” Cadance said.
F-T Tails looked back at the second group of copies and noticed they were still disoriented from the near crash earlier. He looked over at the green Koopa shell and got an idea. “Come on! We still have an opening!” he said. He stood up and ran over to the shell, grabbing it and running towards the copies before jumping on it, riding it like a board into the thick of the copies and using his tails to propel himself forward.
Pinkie, meanwhile, had grabbed the ray gun and was examining it while holding it up with her hooves. She soon had it figured out and pointed it at a Rarity copy that was approaching her. She pulled the trigger and it shot a sticker into the copy’s face, blinding it and causing it to lose its balance. Pinkie stared in surprise for a moment before grinning, “Time for a sticker party!” She then turned and shot a Lucario copy in the side of its face.
O-T Tails, meanwhile, had managed to avoid crashing and continued flying the Tornado over to the right side of the mountain as he tried to figure out where he was and what was going on. As he flew over the dividing line, he noticed fighting on the slopes below and flew down to get a better look. Amongst the flurry of movements, he could see several blue figures and soon was able to recognize one of them. “Hey… Sonics?” he called and started to wave as he flew overhead, hesitating when he noticed that there were two blue hedgehogs instead of one. Everyone looked up as the plane passed by above them and both Sonics waved back up at the fox, F-T Sonic taking a moment before doing so due to his own hesitation.
Lucario looked down when the copy of himself growled at him and quickly blasted it away with a Force Palm, the copy breaking apart when it hit the ground. This caused everyone else to remember they were in the middle of something and they quickly dispatched their copies as well. Seeing that they had a moment to breathe and there was no sign of the meteorite, Lucario turned to the others and said, “This is taking too long. We need to find that meteorite.”
F-T Sonic shrugged, “Hey, I agree with you, Lucario. The sooner we find that rock and get Rayquaza focused, the better, but you checked a minute ago; they’re cloaking it from your Aura. How are we gonna narrow it down?” He heard the sound of Yoshi moving around and turned to see him running to different spots on the path and sniffing. “Uh, isn’t your nose tuned to pick up on fruit, Yoshi?” Sonic asked, the green dinosaur glancing at him and shrugging in reply.
Riolu urged, “Come on, keep sniffing, green guy! You’ll pick up the scent if you just keep it up!” Beside him, Pikachu closed his eyes and held a paw to his forehead.
Lucario said, “It’s not a bad idea, but like Sonic said, it would surely take a sense of smell specially for rocks to be able to detect a meteorite.” He and the others turned to look at Link when, a moment later, he let out an agonized scream. As the flash of light cleared, they saw he had changed into a large, brown, muscular creature that looked like a living rock. He now had white hair on his face, a necklace that had blue beads, and a large scar across his stomach. “Link?” Lucario asked, wondering what this transformation was.
Link didn’t answer him; he got down on the ground instead, sniffing a bit as he tried to see if his Goron senses could pick up anything unusual. As he lay there, he found he could feel things through the ground significantly better than he could as a human. He could feel the clopping of hooves against the ground from the other side of the mountain as well as footsteps, some normal-sounding and others unusually light. And not far away, he could smell something otherworldly… He stood up suddenly and pointed to the other side of the mountain with a grunt. “It’s on that side?” Spike asked. Link nodded and then dropped to the ground again, this time curling up into a ball and rolling up the nearby slope, heading for the other side.
As Greninja leapt up onto higher ground and took off after the boy, F-T Sonic commented, “Huh.”
Spike looked up at the older hedgehog and asked, “What’s up, Sonic? Are you not impressed this time since you can do that too?”
O-T Sonic looked down at Spike with his hands on his hips while F-T Sonic replied, “No… Those masks Link has are something else, though. I mean, how do they change him like that?”
Lucario said, “A question for later, I suppose. Come on! Let’s make like Greninja and follow that Rollout!” They all hurried up the slope after Link, who had made it to the other side of the mountain and sprouted spikes from his body as he closed in on a group of copies. He bowled through them and crashed into part of the rock wall. He bounced up and broke out of his curl, turning around to look when his feet were on the ground. He saw that, while most of the copies had been sent flying, one had dodged out of the way: a copy of his normal self. And under its right arm was the rainbow-colored meteorite.
As soon as their eyes met, the copy turned and dashed away from Link, unhindered by the rock under its arm. The copy hurried down the path Link had come up, the darkening skies causing it to move faster than Link normally could, but as it reached the junction, a large Water Shuriken struck the path to the right. Startled, the copy turned and went left instead, but realized too late that Spike, the Sonics, Yoshi, and Team Defenders were standing in its way. It tried to go right, but Greninja leapt down from above, Lucario, Riolu, and Pikachu joining it while Yoshi, Spike, and the Sonics stayed where they were, cutting off its escape routes.
It looked around at them for a moment before turning to go back the way it came, only to find Link there, the transformed boy having caught up. As it looked up at him, the copy finally drew its sword, pointing it up at Link as dark mist swirled around its blade, causing it to suddenly extend until it was just inches from Link’s neck. Although he was surprised, Link responded to the challenge. In one surprisingly quick movement, he used his right hand to push the blade away while lunging forward, his left hand surrounded by flames as he threw it in a punch. It knocked the copy on its back, its sword falling from its hand, though it still held onto the meteorite. Link moved forward, getting over the copy and curling up again. He then leapt straight up and squished the copy when he came back down, the mist seeping out from underneath him.
There was silence for a moment, then Sonic asked, “Link? You got it?” The boy uncurled and stood up, smiling as he held up the meteorite in his left hand.
A few seconds later, they all heard Twilight ask, “Link?” The boy turned around while the others looked to see F-T Tails and the ponies standing there. Link reached up with his right hand and gave his face a tug, feeling the change come over him as he pulled the Goron Mask away. With a flash of light, his body was back to its normal Hylian form. He peered out from behind the mask and smiled at the other group. “That’s incredible,” Twilight said, now properly awed by the fascinating items that Link carried around.
Lucario took the meteorite out from under Link’s left arm while the boy put his mask away. The Aura Pokémon looked down at the rock for a moment before he looked up at Rainbow and asked, “I just want to make sure… Rainbow Dash, are you certain this is what you saw?”
The cyan pegasus nodded, “That’s it all right. That’s how that rock looked when Rayquaza got close to it.”
Lucario looked back down at the meteorite before turning to look up at the top of the mountain, seeing Rayquaza still locked in battle with the black Rayquaza. “Now we have to get this meteorite up to Rayquaza. It’s not going to be easy, but we have to do it,” he said.
Rarity spoke, “Might I suggest we do it quickly as well? We had some portals open up near us earlier. They helped us get out of rather tight squeeze, but it’s not necessarily a good thing, especially if it’s going to keep happening.” As if in agreement, a portal suddenly opened behind Greninja, Pikachu, and Riolu, the three Pokémon looking back at it. Greninja noticed something coming through it and shot forward, pushing Link to the ground as the object came flying out while Lucario jumped back to avoid it, the object crashing into the rock face and landing on its side.
Instead of being surprised by the oddly coincidental timing of the portal, Tails and the ponies were surprised as they noticed Greninja for the first time. “What is that thing? Looks like a frog,” Applejack said as the ‘mon helped Link to his feet.
F-T Sonic spoke, “It’s called Greninja. We can do the introductions later; Rarity’s point has been made.” He looked over at Yoshi as the green dinosaur ran over to the object that had come out of the still-open portal and used his tongue to pull on it, flipping it right-side up. “Is that a kart?” Sonic asked noticing the four wheels, the Yoshi egg on the front, and the simplistic design of the light green carriage.
Yoshi hopped into the driver’s seat and started the kart, the engine turning over a few times before it roared to life. “Yoshi, I know that kart races are a big deal both in and outside of the Mushroom Kingdom, but there’s no time for that. We need to stay focused,” F-T Tails said. Yoshi didn’t answer him as he checked over everything in the kart, making sure it all worked. As his fingers ran along the sides of the steering wheel, the wheels suddenly moved out and turned downwards, the kart hovering in midair where it sat. “Wait, is that kart equipped with anti-gravity? That… might actually be useful,” Tails said.
Suddenly something shot by and bumped into the front of Yoshi’s kart, causing it to spin in a circle once as Yoshi let out a cry. They all looked up over the right path to see that it was Rainbow Dash copy. They then looked down at the path and then back at the left path to see that a large group of copies was approaching from both sides, no doubt planning to overwhelm them. Lucario looked up towards the mountain summit for a moment before turning to O-T Sonic and thrusting the meteorite into his hands, saying, “Here! Get this to Rayquaza! We’ll hold them back!”
F-T Sonic started, “What?! Dude…!”
Lucario interjected, “Just go! We’ll catch up! We named our team Defenders for a reason.”
Riolu spoke, “Hey, my team’s named Defenders too! What are the chances of that?”
Lucario grunted in exasperation and held a paw to his face for a moment before saying, “I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.”
F-T Tails noticed the two copy groups were starting to draw closer and asked, “Can anybody use their magic to help this kart get up the mountain?” After a few awkward moments of Cadance and she and her brother trying, Twilight was able to use her magic to help enhance the kart’s abilities, its anti-gravity allowing it to go forward and backward freely even with the weight of Spike, two Sonics, and several earth and unicorn ponies climbing onto the back of it. Twilight lifted it up so it could reach the center trail leading up the mountain while Link, Greninja, and Team Defenders stayed behind to deal with what was essentially a Monster House of copies.
Yoshi drove straight up towards the summit while Twilight used her magic to keep the kart in the air above the trail. Scattered shots from the fighting up above rained down at them, but Yoshi kept an eye on out for them as he kept driving, moving to the sides to avoid getting hit while Tails, Fluttershy, Rainbow, and Cadance did the same as they flew close by. Suddenly something shot past below them, almost hitting the underside of the kart but missing as it turned to go down towards the ground. A second later, a purple laser shot up from the ground and hit the back of the kart, causing it to flip over and sending everyone spilling out, the kart falling with them. Thankfully they weren’t too high up so everyone on the kart didn’t get hurt too badly when they landed, but when they looked to see who had attacked them, they saw the Rainbow copy from earlier along with a Twilight copy. Looking around, they saw mist starting to seep up over the sides of the trail, bringing more copies with it. The flyers flew down and joined the others on the ground, all of them preparing for a fight.
Back down the trail, Team Defenders, Greninja, and Link were still trying to fight off the copies that were forming around them, but no matter how many of them they destroyed, more would simply rise to take the place of the fallen. There seemed to be no end to them and they were getting overwhelmed; something had to happen soon if they were going to have a chance of joining the others without being followed. Link and Greninja pressed their backs up against each other, both panting from exertion but both still ready to keep fighting. As they stood like that, they began to feel as though they were starting to join together even though nothing seemed to be happening. Greninja recognized the feeling and became calmer, feeling as Link began to breathe in sync with him, their heartbeats, for a moment, slowing.
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Do we need to have a Highlander battle between the two? Or better yet, a rap battle?
8173523 Did you see the recent Sonic Forces trailer?
Very nice work...
Can't help but feel its dragging on, in a borderline good-bad way, cannot wait to see how Rayquaza acknowledges our band of heroes, and her going to put a harsh crack-down on Groudon and Kyogre...
I can't wait for the next part...
Well, you know that the Dark Mewtwo X has done goofed up when Link decides to bust out his Fierce Deity Mask on its ass!
And it wouldn't be Link if he didn't play a game of Dead Man's Volley with Dark Mewtwo's Aura Sphere and a Shadow Ball simultaneously, and then following up with a Light Arrow? And I guess he must have somehow picked up a Smash Ball, because he finished the fight with a Triforce Slash!
Okay, so the source of those dark copies is still an issue.
Could someone please call Chell? She has more than her fair share of experience with portals!
Dude...so Greninja wasn't the fourth member of Team Defenders? Then who is it?
Confirmed: Riolu is Lucario's own past self. Only question is, how does he not remember this crazy adventure?
That ending...Link is about to sync with Greninja, and that can only mean one thing: Ash-Greninja! Or would it be Link-Greninja, in this case?
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Yep, a "Hyrule Warriors"-styled Triforce Slash.
You'll get the answers to those Pokémon-related questions in what will HOPEFULLY be the final part.
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Yes...
8175598 Did you like my little Portal joke?
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I did.
So... we reached a point where two Sonics, two Tails, the ponies, Yoshi, Link and a team of Pokémon are trying to overcome Death Mountain in Yoshi's Kart as they have to fight Rayquaza, Primal Groudon and Kyogre, and whatever is behind the dark copies after fighting Mewtwo on Yoshi's Island.
We're almost going straight up Lego Dimensions and Smash Bros with crossover insanity and it's amazing. I wonder how this arc is going to end should the next chapter be the finale.
Man, oh man! This is going super crazy! And I love every bit of it! If this keeps up, it's going to be a like a huge mash up of MLP:FiM, Sonic Generations, Super Smash Bros, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon and Lego Dimensions all rolled up into one!!! Great work! Turbo-Tastic!
A non stop roller coaster of action. Can't wait to see Rayquaza attain her pure form and tussle with Groudon and Kyogre.
Wow looking good. Love how you added greninja to the battle. Can't wait to see how his role plays. And can't wait to see raquazaa battle ground on and kyorge soon.
Man, things are getting completely wild. Gotta love the actions in this chapter, especially with Link, who is showing us exactly why no one should underestimate the kid. Link will owned ya butt and soul if you do~! Keep up the epic work!
C&C:
...until the Aura Sphere came back at the Mewtwo too face to reflect.
> Auto Correction: ...until the Aura Sphere came back at the Mewtwo’s face too fast to reflect.
(Note: I was going to simply ask you to replace 'face' with 'fast', but I thought there might be a reason you inputted 'face'.)
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Thank you. Should be fixed now, I think. I'm stuck on my phone for the time being.
Man it would be worse if Shadow Lugia showed from Pokémon XD Gale of Darkness you know what I mean. That would be bad news not even Luna of Celestia could stop it! It's a Legendary Pokémon!
8173523 Man that would be funny just saying.
Too bad Ash and Pikachu aren't in this they would do some real damage to the bad guys. Also Team Rocket would try and capture Sonic & company along with Pikachu as always. I like their crakeups like their cheesy motos and their usual leaving line. ‘Looks like Team Rocket is blasting off again! Wobbuffet!’ That gets me all the time!